Jasmine Meikle

[Angie Jones @angijones]

Pretend men can be women all you like but if you think disabled and elderly women should be denied the right to single sex intimate care because it might “hurt transwomen” you are a monster.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate.

1. You're a man and I'm a woman.

2. You've been wealthy and famous since your early 20s. I didn't become well known until I was well over 30.

3. I've never been given 15 months for handcuffing a man to a wall and beating him with a chain.

4. I believe in freedom of speech and belief.

For more than half my life I was a regular anonymous person. Some of those years were spent in poverty. That's why I understand the importance of single-sex spaces for women who're reliant on state-funded services. That's why I understand why mixed public changing rooms are a problem for women. That's why I have a problem with men 'identifying' into women's rape crisis centres, domestic abuse and homeless shelters that are supposed to be single-sex. I don't stand against gender identity ideology because I personally still need those services, but because my life has taught me exactly how vulnerable women are when they don't have the money/influence I have now.

You yourself have been convicted of violent assault. The overwhelming number of people who commit crimes of violence are male, just like you. That's why I don't want to see men identifying into women's prison cells or any of the spaces mentioned above. Not all men are violent or predatory, but enough are to make safeguarding necessary.

Lastly, I'm a writer who believes in freedom of speech and belief. As we both know, the safe, fashionable thing in the arts world right now is to do exactly what you're doing: parrot TWAW and sneer at the unenlightened plebs who think sex is important and matters. For a man who was once all about non-conformity, George, you couldn't have become more predictably or more tediously conformist.

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

Always worth a repost!

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@HJB_News__ He is absolutely correct

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

I’d rather pay a pound more for milk than see our farmers go under because they don’t earn enough.

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@JohnSwinney You need to go outside and speak to your people .. like the ones who voted Snp all these years . Not the 2020 Pixar versions you seem to run off now ... We didn't put any of you in power for this . But we will be the ones to take it away

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@Deiniolenman @MikeStewart79 Agreed .. like this post shows .. it is not a union .. if it was any of the countries should be able to dissolve it .. but we can't until England , what was it again ? "Let us go?. so u all get together get back to us .. since we such a drain and uncooth.. let us go

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@MikeStewart79 It's funny how just a quick scroll down your twitter shows the level you detest Scotland and it's people yet ... Somehow it's us that hate the English ? Make it make sense

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

An asylum seeker arrived in Japan and immediately caused trouble at the airport. He was deported the same day, without ever setting foot outside.

That’s how you handle it!

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@JohnSwinney But Ur still going to fire 900 of them into our army barracks in Inverness .. get a grip .. supported snp all my days until YOU made it unsafe to be a female in our own country .. hang your head in shame and don't be so disrespectful.. deeply concerned my arse

[Hairy Angus @HairyAngus]

oh look, Scotland has twice as much oil and gas as we were previously told, tell us again how we're too poor to manage with 5.3 million people yet rich enough to bail out 68 million people cos someone somewhere has got the sums wrong. https://t.co/DRNo2ZUZU7

[YES Brechin @BrechinYes2]

Will we ever learn. Grangemouth gone. Now the Dennis bus factory is moving to Scarborough, England. Cream of Galloway bought by a Yorkshire company closed and production moved to England. What's in this Union for we Scots. Leaving our future in the hands of others isn't working.

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@theSNP Brilliant .. can we also bring back freedom of speech . Single sex spaces . Clean water. Can we have churches back to pray in Can I feel safe going to a doctor knowing their mental health wont trump my health when I need an appointment? ..be great to know before voting .

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@theSNP We wanted freedom .. and voted behind u all the way .. but now you have stripped my identity and given it to men for selfish reasons . Scotland will never be free ..You have taken our identities our safe space and put laws in place so we can no longer talk out about it traitors

[EJ Rosetta 💚🖤💜 @ejrosetta]

So I have this prickly but lovely elderly neighbour, right, who recently asked me if I could come & help her with “the trans”. That’s how she worded it.

And if you know me, you know she picked the right woman for the job!

*Grace let me in & nervously asked what she thought was a very serious favour.

“The trans” she said “I’ve been told one may be coming over & I must know what to say.”

I asked for more info.

*Grace is now 78 & wishes to live her Golden Years at home, & not be forced in to a care facility. She doesn’t have family, her husband died years ago & now she relies on home help to keep her independent. She recently fell, so has to have a carer in every day.

She was asking me, it turned out, on advice on how to kindly ask any “trans” who comes to her home that she’s fine today & doesn’t need care.

She does need care. Intimate care, help changing & bathing, as although she’s a fire cracker, her hip isn’t co-operating anymore. I quite agree & plan on being an old stubborn hermit myself, one day, but she felt like she had to explain herself & I let her. Turns out, her story is quite sad.

At first I thought she’d heard about “the trans” on the news & was being “of her generation” until I heard her history. She makes good tea & great apple cake, so we settled in & I spent an afternoon chatting. My twin is trans, see, so my first instinct is always to encourage acceptance.

I won’t be too graphic but turns out, Grace had a lot to worry about. Along with CSA, spending her ‘20s as a secretary where “late nights with the bosses” was part of the job (😤), to a sexually violent incident with a young man who once “got” Grace at 55 YEARS OLD(😭), Grace doesn’t like men in her home.

Does that sound fair? My elderly neighbour, after a lifetime of building her community, working in public service & being kind to everyone, would like to spend her retirement in dignity, safe from men. I think she has a right to that after what she’s been through.

It gets worse. Though Grace did marry, it was what she called a “marriage of convenience” at 45. He was game, she was convinced, & after 20 years as friends they promised to live happily in a “separate bedrooms” marriage.

It was not illegal to rape your wife back then, as it is now. When she said her vows, so jeered her new husband, she’d “pre-consented”. Forever. (🤬)
She describes it as the most terrifying 14 years of her life & it made me want to cry. And rage.

Ofc I abandoned my trans acceptance speech & went to call the care people as surely she could request female only care?

No, she couldn’t. She’d tried but been snapped at by one of her care team & told that “abuse towards staff was not tolerated”. All she’d asked is if she could have truly female only care!

And she’d not just been told off for her request; she’d been shamed & berated.

Here’s how I feel - Grace, at 79, deserves to have her dignity in her Golden Years & not live in fear of a *male being given access to her home to bathe her. She should be able to ask for women only care & truly get it, & not be called a hateful bigot or blacklisted from life-sustaining services.

Single sex services aren’t just about safety but dignity. Respect. Granting the wishes of our vulnerable without chastising or “educating” them in their Golden Years.

Grace doesn’t hate trans people, she just doesn’t want to be touched intimately by anyone male. & considering how many men have disregarded that preference (😡) I feel she should be allowed to say No, set her boundaries, & have them finally respected. & shame on any trans person who would deny her that.

I don’t know how I’m going to put this to the care company, but I’ll do it firmly & in a way which leaves behind a policy which gives all elderly women in my area the right to truly female only care. Without being called hateful transphobes or - as Grace was about to do - signing off needed services essential for her quality & length of life.

I’m so glad Grace asked. Wish me luck.

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@rejserin @jk_rowling They are men .. maybe delusional men ,but still men all the same

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@DreyfusJames Its a man .. and women are not a category .. I dont see how everyone got so confused ?

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@Obsolesence Naomi Fee killed her son Liam in the most horrific way and made his tiny life hell while he was here .. she is a vile excuse for a woman.. I hope she rots .. she should be with the animals not humans of any sex

[Jasmine Meikle @Jay_Bird27]

@HilllbillyHugs @ChrisFalconer16 @SophieMolly_OFF @AberdeenCC Correct women are allowed . Men are not .